Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coast one jump ahead of the thermometer, spend the month of December shuttling around Greater Miami and Nassau [tournaments this year: $10,000 Miami-Biltmore Open (No. 2), $3,500 Nassau Open (No. j), $3,000 Miami Open (No. 4), $4,000 Holly-wood Beach Hotel Open (No. 5)], swing over to California for a midwinter stand, then return to Florida [this year via the $5,000 Crescent City Open at New Orleans (No. 12)1, work their way up the coast to climax the season with Bobby Jones at his Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga. [Consecutive map numbers follow...
...Sarazen, go so far as to say he is the greatest golfer ever developed in the U. S. Making his bigtime debut in the winter circuit last year, 24-year-old Samuel Jackson Snead captured the favor of golf galleries by his tremendous power and precise timing, his natural swing, his titanic stretch finishes. He began to draw galleries reminiscent of the Hagen, Jones and Sarazen eras. By the time the No. i U. S. tournament of the year, the National Open, came around in June, Sam Snead was favored to win-an unheard of predicament for a first-year...
...Swing Your Lady (Warner Bros.). When Ed (Humphrey Bogart) and his assistant Popeye (Frank McHugh) wanted to keep their wrestler Joe Skopapolous (Nat Pendleton) from finding out what they were talking about, all they had to do was spell the words. Joe knew that he was matched to wrestle a blacksmith in Plunket, Mo. on Decoration Day. What he did not know was that the blacksmith was a dame (Louise Fazenda). Out skipping rope, Joe met Sadie, paid her the sincerest tribute womanhood could inspire in him: "You're sure a big one all right...
...have nothing to do with phrases like "hot harmony," "killer-diller" or "swing." We call it jazz...
While Germany, Italy, France and Britain eagerly waited to see in what direction the Goga Government's foreign policy was going to swing, one of its internal policies was quickly made clear. Symptomatic was the offering of special prayers for Premier Goga's aged right-hand man, 81-year-old Minister Without Portfolio Professor Alexander Cuza. Professor Cuza was not only founder of a predecessor of the present National Christian Party but is a famed oldtime Fascist and a vigorous Jew-baiter. Disdaining the Nazi swastika, Fascist Cuza has used a blue swastika as his party symbol (since...